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On Sept. 30, the MIT community came together to celebrate the career of Institute Professor Emerita Sheila Widnall, who recently retired after spending 64 years at MIT. The virtual event featured remarks from MIT leaders, current and former secretaries of the U.S. Air Force, and Widnall’s faculty colleagues from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro), who spoke of her impact at MIT and beyond.
MIT was not only a springboard for a hungry young tinkerer who became a remarkable engineer and a visionary leader, both at MIT and on the national stage. Widnall would also become one of the curious few who make MIT their intellectual home for their full adult lives. Her work in fluid dynamics would have major implications in aviation and space flight. She would become the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S. military when she was secretary of the Air Force in the 1990s. And her leadership in supporting women in the STEM fields, both at MIT and internationally, would blaze trails for six decades.
The call to adventure
It was a small chunk of uranium, a gift from an uncle who worked for a mining company that first brought Widnall face to face with her future.
It may seem like an odd choice of present for teenager, but in the 1950s when Widnall was in high school in Tacoma, Washington, America was hot for uranium. Hollywood produced two uranium-themed movies: “Uranium Boom” and “Dig That Uranium.” The Atomic Energy Commission was paying between $3,000 and $7,000 a ton for the stuff — half the cost of a new home.
To Widnall, however, the rock had a more practical purpose. An 11th grader at Aquinas Academy, a Catholic girls’ school, she had a science project due: “I used it, along with models of atoms, to explain radioactive decay,” she told a reporter in 2009.
Her project on the degradation of uranium won first prize at the Tacoma Science Fair, and from there it was on to a national competition. She traveled with her science teacher on a two-day, 2,000-mile train trip to Ohio, where Widnall’s life was about to change forever.
Her project impressed a Tacoma civil engineer, Arthur Anderson SM ’35, SCD ’38. As a businessman he’d developed pre-stressed concrete, which could be used to create curved beams, the kind you see in monorails like the ones at Walt Disney World. Anderson thought Widnall had a future in science and told her she should apply to his alma mater, MIT.
“Where’s that?” she asked.
Soon enough, Widnall would discover how the Institute launched the intellectually curious, helping them explore the boundary where the known meets the unknown.
From Tacoma to Cambridge
Widnall attributes the fearlessness with which she faced a career in engineering to her parents, Rolland and Genevieve Evans. At a time when women were only a third of the U.S. labor force, Widnall was unique among her friends in having a mother with a full-time job. Genevieve Evans was a probation officer whose cases sometimes required her to reach back to her earlier professional experience as a social worker. “She worked with families, kids who were accused of violent crimes,” Widnall says with pride. “It was a big deal.”
Her father, Rolland Evans, was an insurance salesman. Later in his life, he went back to school to obtain a master’s degree and teach college-level business. He also taught his daughter self-reliance. “We worked together on various projects, building things. He fixed things and I’d tag along and he’d show me how. I was 20 years old before I realized you could hire people to do work on your house,” Widnall says.
After being accepted to MIT, Widnall arrived on campus in the fall of 1956. Of 6,000 students at that time, just 2 percent were female, including 23 first-years. The women felt isolated, Widnall remembers, forced to live in a rowhouse a mile off campus. While she personally experienced few instances of outright sexism, one episode stood out: “When I came to MIT and was introduced to my freshman advisor, he said “Why are you here?’, Which I took as an insult. I thought, ‘This guy is a jerk.’ But every other advisor was supportive.”
One of these, math professor George Thomas, author of the famous textbook, “Thomas’ Calculus,” brought cookies to sustain her during a test. Another, Holt Ashley, an aeronautical engineering professor known for his patience and humor, first suggested to Widnall that she pursue an advanced degree — and she readily agreed.
By then, Widnall already knew what she would study. “I love airplanes. There was never an issue about what I was going to choose,” she says. Much later in her career, she would read reports suggesting many women entering science and engineering chose fields where they believe they can make the biggest contribution. By her example, it was true. Less than a decade into her career she’d already conducted research that had an impact in aeronautics, one that every air traveler ought to appreciate.
After obtaining her PhD in 1964, Widnall was hired as the first female faculty member in the MIT School of Engineering, where she established her research program with a focus on fluid dynamics. Eventually, she published research that analyzed vortices trailing from the wing tips of aircraft. This work was used to gauge the hazards of wake turbulence. It was no small matter, as some of the largest commercial aircraft were taking to the skies, the Lockheed L10-11, the DC-10 and the jumbo jet that started it all, the 400 plus seat Boeing 747. Turbulence from the wing vortices of these enormous airplanes could and sometimes did upset the flight of airplanes nearby.
But as Widnall’s MIT colleague Dave Darmofal, the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, notes, there was a smaller phenomenon in Widnall’s research that had even larger applications for wing, engine and rocket design. “Yes, she made an impact in understanding the wing tip vortex with the obvious aviation application, but the fundamental understanding of the Widnall instability you see in many more situations,” Darmofal says. “With any kind of fluid motion this instability plays a role.”
Widnall also kept an analytical eye on how MIT and other academic institutions could contribute their research expertise to government policy. Transportation was evolving in the seventies. America’s interstate highway system was brand new, but the increasing emphasis on cars had many environmental and social consequences, not all of them positive. Could academia help government think through these issues?
Widnall got the chance to find out when fellow engineering professor Robert Cannon asked her to be the first director of the office of university research for the U.S. Department of Transportation. In the early seventies, Widnall oversaw the distribution of $6.5 million, ($31 million in 2020 dollars) for university research projects from Alaska to Atlanta.
Around this same time, Widnall was thinking about improving outcomes for MIT students who came to the Institute without strong backgrounds in engineering, and who ultimately missed out on careers in this area. She teamed up with MIT physicist and electrical engineer Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus to spearhead a new course for first-year MIT students that introduced avenues for career advancement in various engineering fields. “We had hoped for 15 students per semester, but we got over 100,” Widnall recalled in 2017. “Many MIT women and minority students took the course, and quite a few decided to major in engineering.”
Later, Widnall saw how MIT’s own research provided a way through the persistent gender imbalance in admissions. In the 1980s, as chair of MIT’s admission committee, she proposed a simple solution: accept more of the women who apply to MIT. Her proposal relied on the research of then-engineering professor Art Smith. He had discovered that the Scholastic Aptitude Tests under-predict the actual academic performance of women students — at least as far as the math scores were concerned. The proposal, based on the data, was to add a small percentage to their SAT score. MIT was casting about for ways to increase the number of women while at the same time using an irrelevant barrier.
“People in the administration were saying, ‘We have to do more advertising we have to do more searching” for women students, Widnall says. “And I said, ‘Why are we searching? The women we should admit are the women who have applied.’”
The idea was effective. A year later, she says, “the number of women admitted rose from 26 percent to 38 percent.”
Not satisfied to stop at undergrad admissions, Widnall turned her attention to graduate applicants.
Daniel Hastings, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Education and head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, remembered Widnall’s presence at a meeting of faculty for admissions in the early 1990s. When all the candidates had been considered, the applications sat on the table, divided into stacks of yes, no, and waitlist. Then Widnall summarized the proceedings, noting that all of the women had been waitlisted while they accepted many of the men.
“Every time there was a question, ‘Is this candidate capable?’ the men were given the benefit of the doubt and the women were not. The women went to the waitlist pile,” says Hastings. “We felt collectively ashamed and we went back to correct that.”
Hasting’s summary was simple. “Wise people are the backbone of this place.”
Leadership on a national stage
Her reputation for wise sensibility was not confined within MIT’s walls. In 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton cited Widnall’s scientific acheivements when he nominated her to become secretary of the U.S. Air Force. Prior to the nomination, Widnall had served on several Air Force advisory boards and had served as chair of the Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors in the 1980s. Accepting Clinton’s nomination, she became the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S. military.
While Widnall called it “an incredible experience,” to lead the Air Force, with an $84 billion budget, it was a time of international strife as well as domestic controversies and sexual harassment scandals, all of which were serious business. “Many pressures are brought on the secretary of the Air Force. The person has to make the tough calls and live with the key decisions,” says a successor to Widnall, 23rd Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James.
When she announced she would return to MIT in 1997, Widnall’s legacy at the Air Force was writ large and small. On the larger side is a program to develop the expendable launch vehicle used for Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rockets, which began under her direction. “These vehicles still provide the majority of the launch capability for National Security launches,” she says, adding, “There has never been a launch failure.”
Less obvious, but equally important, was her contribution to defining the character of the Air Force. The branch had no stated core values when Widnall arrived, so she elevated those of the Air Force Academy — “Integrity first. Service before self. Excellence in all we do.” — to define all 400,000 airmen and women.
“If you ask any airmen, ‘What are our values?’ my guess is 99 percent would be able to tell you,” says Heather Wilson, who became the 24th Air Force secretary two decades after Widnall broke the glass ceiling. “The best values are those when a leader says, ‘This is who we are.’”
Back to the Tech
Widnall’s return to campus was a thrilling development for MIT’s ROTC students because she volunteered to be their academic advisor.
“It was awesome,” says 1st Lt. John Graham, now an F-16 pilot. Graham found his highly accomplished advisor down-to-Earth, fun-loving, and — most important — a talented instructor.
“What she taught me I wouldn’t have learned in a different astrodynamics class,” Graham says. “She could simplify the complex.”
Meanwhile, Widnall’s service continued on the national level. Most recently she served as co-chair of a 2018 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that examined the costs and consequences of sexual harassment in these fields. It was another example of Widnall applying her experience and intellectual energy to improve the environment for female students.
Among other things, the book-length report analyzes the effectiveness of harassment awareness training programs and finds them wanting. The report concludes changing behavior is key, and efforts should be regularly assessed.
“Schools have to create a climate that supports proper behavior,” Widnall says. “They don’t do it by passing rules and regulations; they change the environment.”
To Capt. Jay Pothula ’14, a former ROTC student at MIT, this message was clear: He and all students have a role to play in creating an atmosphere conducive to achievement. “Adhering to the core values is one way we can reduce the incidents of harassment and assault,” says Pothula, now in F-15 pilot training at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.
Widnall also had a unique approach to testing students, according to Pothula, who took her aerodynamics class.
“Most of the quizzes and learning moments took place in knowledge tests,” he says. “You would go into a room with her and the teaching assistant and you would be given a problem and you would try to solve it in front of them.”
At first, Pothula found the method intimidating but before long his thoughts were flying. “These were great experiences because she would always know the right thing to say to push you ever so slightly in the right direction. She would always get you there. There was a dual purpose, testing your knowledge but you would learn a lot in the experience.”
Widnall did not reserve that kind of thought-prodding for students only. Olivier de Weck, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and of engineering systems, joined the faculty of MIT in 2001, occupying an office across the hall from Widnall, who he describes as a friend, colleague, and mentor. He hadn’t been in the job long when Widnall was asked to serve on the board looking into the loss of the space shuttle Columbia, which came apart on its return to Earth in February 2003, killing seven astronauts.
Over the course of seven months, Widnall and her fellow investigators examined the physical chain of events as well as the systemic pressures that played a role. De Weck watched in fascination as his colleague participated in writing one of the best-ever analyses of an accident.
“She is able to look under the covers,” he says describing Windall as having “an uncanny ability to peel away layers of complexity and get to the core reason about why things are and why they happen.”
It was de Weck’s habit to stop by Widnall’s office most mornings for a quick conversation or to catch up on MIT news. On occasion, though, de Weck would seek her advice. Widnall would steer the search for a solution right back to him, de Weck says, using her decades of experience to provide relevant context.
“She never tells you what to do, just how to look at the question from a holistic perspective,” de Weck says. “After leaving Sheila’s office, I felt I had a different way to think about the problem.”
When Widnall naively stepped onto the campus of MIT in 1956, she began a journey that would help her live up to the expectations of those who saw her potential in her youth and pushed her to do more. She became a role model for those who came after, inspiring those who benefited from her pioneering efforts for women and for science.
All the while she was becoming what she set out to be at the age of 15, considering that chunk of uranium; a traveler on never-ending journey along the border between the known and the unknown.
Quavo and Saweetie went public with their relationship in 2018
Quavo from the Migos has made it no secret how much he loves his girlfriend Saweetie and now he’s revealing exactly what he said to get his beloved’s attention after sliding into her DMs.
Wednesday, the rapper– born Keyate Marshall–posted a screenshot of that fateful first encounter on his Twitter account, followed by a picture of him and Saweetie having drinks together after being together for over two years now.
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In the direct message dated March 15, 2018, Quavo sent his future boo a snowflake emoji, which is an obvious reference to Saweetie’s “Icy Girl” single. Saweetie, whose government name is Diamanté Quiava Valentin Harper, played along by responding in kind with a steaming bowl of food emoji, which is speculated to be in reference to Migos’ “Stir Fry” single, which was out at the time.
Quavo followed up with, “U so icy Ima glacier boy,” and she responded, “Was hannin then.”
Although the exchange wasn’t exactly Shakespearean, clearly the interest was mutual because in September of 2018 the couple went public and has been seemingly going strong ever since. Unfortunately, while Quavo is clearly blissfully in love, his bandmate Offset hasn’t been as lucky in love lately.
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As we previously reported, last month Hollywood Unlocked broke the news that Cardi B, born Belcalis Almanzar, had filed a petition in Georgia’s Fulton County Superior Court to dissolve her marriage to Migos rapper Offset, whose real name is Kiari Cephus.
Cheating rumors have dogged the couple throughout their relationship. They started dating possibly in 2016. Most didn’t know the two had even married until Cardi told the world while she was pregnant in 2018.
The estranged couple is due in court on Nov. 4. The two rap stars share a daughter, Kulture, who turned 2 in July and Cardi is asking for custody and child support.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is concerned about the president’s ‘altered state’ after receiving drug treatment for COVID-19.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that she is introducing legislation on Friday that will establish a “Commission on Presidential Capacity” related to the 25th Amendment, according to NBC News.
The 25th Amendment says, “In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President,” per govinfo.gov.
It adds, “Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.”
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The speaker said she is concerned about Trump’s mental capacity after he has been taking steroids to combat the coronavirus. On Thursday, Trump tweeted about Pelosi in reference to her comments on the 25th Amendment: “Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation. They don’t call her Crazy for nothing!”
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Per a news release, the legislation is being created “to help ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership in the highest office in the Executive Branch of government.”
During her weekly press conference at the Capitol on Thursday, Pelosi told reporters to come to the Hill on Friday because “We’re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment.”
During an interview on Bloomberg after the conference, she said, “The president is, shall we say, in an altered state right now, I don’t know how to answer for that behavior.
“There are those who say when you are on steroids or have COVID-19, there may be some impairment of judgment.”
Pelosi and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) will hold a news conference at the Capitol Friday to discuss the amendment.
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Fox News put distance against Harlan Z. Hill who doubled down on his personal attack against Harris after the VP debate.
Sen. Kamala Harris debated Vice President Mike Pence last night and while many lauded her performance, a conservative commentator disparaged her as an “insufferable lying b-tch.”
Harris and Pence exchanged barbs in a 90-minute debate at the University of Utah on Wednesday in Salt Lake City, Utah. The California senator condemned the Trump White House as “the greatest failure of any presidential administration” for their handling of the coronavirus. Outside of a fly that stole the show by landing on Pence’s hair, Harris’ skilled presentation won her praise and a CNN flash poll declared her the winner.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden saluted his running mate with a mashup of her more memorable moments during the debate. Former President Barack Obama also showed her some love.
However, not everyone was impressed and it crossed into personal insults.
“Kamala Harris comes off as such an insufferable lying bitch. Sorry, it’s just true,” Fox News commentator and author Harlan Z. Hill tweeted.
He followed up the dig by invoking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who was the 2016 Democratic nominee.
“I didn’t think it was possible for someone to be less likable than @HillaryClinton, but here we are…”
He continued the vulgar attack hours later.
“Good morning! Kamala Harris still sucks and comes off as a bitch,” he wrote.
Hill’s page became an echo chamber of taunts directed at Harris as he retweeted other commentators who disrespected her. However, his attack against the first Black and Asian woman on the top of a presidential ticket struck a chord with the K-Hive, especially her niece Meena Harris.
Meena called him out for being “a sad little man,” over the disrespect toward her aunt.
“Didn’t I murder you once?” Tiffany Cross, author, and commentator mentioned, uploading a video of her in a heated exchange with Hill. “I’m not done talking,” Cross reminded him in the clip as he interrupted her.
Grammy award winning singer Lalah Hathaway felt Hill was compensating because he had “penisenvy.”
Bishop Talbert Swan tweeted that he’d “expect nothing less from a vile, racist. pile of horse manure like you than to disrespect a Black woman who won’t ‘stay in her place. Right on cue klansman.”
President Donald Trump also took a swipe at Harris over the debate and labeled her as a “monster” on Thursday.
Fox put distance between themselves and Hill, informing The Daily Beast he’d no longer be booked on their programming.
“We have no intention of booking him as a guest on any of our platforms,” a Fox News Media spokesperson said in a statement.
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Harris condemned ‘the greatest failure of any presidential administration,’ while Pence defended the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence defended the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 210,000 Americans Wednesday night, while his Democratic challenger, Kamala Harris, condemned “the greatest failure of any presidential administration” during a largely civil debate dominated by the coronavirus.
With the virus sweeping through the highest levels of government and Trump just days out of the hospital, Pence acknowledged that “our nation’s gone through a very challenging time this year.”
But he added, “I want the American people to know, from the very first day, President Trump has put the health of America first.” He promised millions of doses of a yet-to-be-announced treatment before the end of the year.
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Harris assailed Trump’s consistent downplaying of the pandemic’s threat, insisting she would not take a vaccine if the Republican president endorsed it without the backing of medical professionals.
“Frankly this administration has forfeited their right to reelection based on this,” she charged.
Less than four weeks before Election Day, Republicans hoped the debate might give the Trump-Pence ticket a final opportunity to help reset a contest that could be slipping away. His poll numbers sagging, the president, with Pence at his side, is struggling to stabilize the nation in the midst of multiple crises as more than a dozen senior officials across the White House, the Pentagon and inside his campaign have been infected by the virus he claimed would disappear.
There were heated exchanges at times, but overall the debate was a far more respectful affair than the opening presidential debate eight days earlier when Trump was the aggressor, butting in and almost yelling. Pence interrupted at times, too, but nothing like Trump had.
The prime-time meeting in Salt Lake City elevated two candidates with presidential aspirations of their own who may be asked to step into the presidency even before the end of the next term. Health questions loom over President Donald Trump, 74, who is recovering from the coronavirus, and 77-year-old Joe Biden, who would be the oldest U.S. president ever.
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Republicans desperately want to cast the race as a choice between two candidates fighting to move the country in vastly different directions. Biden and Harris, they say, would pursue a far-left agenda bordering on socialism; the Democrats say Trump’s administration will stoke racial and other divides, torpedo health care for people who aren’t wealthy and otherwise undercut national strength.
But so long as the coronavirus is ravaging the White House and killing several hundred Americans each day, the election will almost certainly be a referendum on the Trump administration’s inability to control the pandemic, which Republicans have sought to downplay or ignore altogether for several months.
Pence’s message Wednesday night was undercut by the mere fact that the candidates and moderator were separated by plexiglass shields, seated more than 12 feet apart and facing a crowd of masked audience members who faced expulsion if they removed their face coverings. The candidates on stage revealed test results earlier in the day proving they were not infected.
Before Harris said a word, she made history by becoming the first Black woman to stand on a vice presidential debate stage. The night offered her a prime opportunity to energize would-be voters who have shown only modest excitement about Biden, a lifelong politician with a mixed record on race and criminal justice, particularly in his early years in the Senate.
Harris, 55, is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother. She is also a former prosecutor whose pointed questioning of Trump’s appointees and court nominees helped make her a Democratic star.
Pence is a 61-year-old former Indiana governor and ex-radio host, an evangelical Christian known for his folksy charm and unwavering loyalty to Trump. And while he is Trump’s biggest public defender, the vice president does not share the president’s brash tone or undisciplined style.
The candidates also clashed on taxes — or specifically, Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns four years after repeatedly promising to do so. The New York Times reported last month that the president pays very little personal income tax but owes hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.
“It’d be really good to know who the president owes money to,” Harris said.
“The one thing we know about Joe, he puts it all out there. He is honest, he is forthright,” she added. “Donald Trump, on the other hand, has been about covering up everything.”
Pence defended Trump as a job creator who has paid more than his fair share of taxes and shifted toward Biden: “On Day One, Joe Biden’s going to raise your taxes.”
While the debate covered a range of topics, the virus was at the forefront.
Trump released a video just three hours before the debate calling his diagnosis “a blessing in disguise” because it shed light on an experimental antibody combination that he credited for his improved condition — though neither he nor his doctors have a way of knowing whether the drug had that effect.
Pence serves as chair of the president’s coronavirus task force, which has failed to implement a comprehensive national strategy even as Trump himself recovers from the disease and the national death toll surges past 210,000 with no end in sight.
The candidates appeared on stage exactly 12.25 feet (3.7 meters) apart and separated by plexiglass barriers. Both candidates released updated coronavirus test results ahead of the debate proving they were negative as of Tuesday.
Critics suggested that Pence should not be at the debate at all.
The vice president attended an event last week at the White House with Trump and others who have since tested positive, but Pence’s staff and doctors insist he does not need to quarantine under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
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A father is arrested in Las Vegas as police investigate the death of a one-year-old child found dead in a locked car.
The father of a one-year-old was arrested after the child died in a hot, locked car.
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According to the Las Vegas Sun, 27-year-old Sydney Deal refused the suggestion from police officers to break his car window, citing repair costs. He claimed his daughter, Sayah Deal, was okay because the air conditioner was running. The report says Deal declined assistance from a tow-truck company and a locksmith before calling his brother instead. Police said the child was locked in a high-heat environment for approximately an hour and was dead when they finally broke the glass to pull her out.
Deal allegedly accidentally locked the toddler in the running car after leaving his girlfriend’s residence following an argument. He claims after putting his daughter in the backseat, starting the ignition, and turning on the air conditioner, he re-entered the apartment and continued the argument for approximately 15 minutes before asking for his phone and requesting she call her insurance company to unlock his vehicle.
By the time police officers became involved, the Sun reports, Sayah had sat inside the car for almost 45 minutes.
After the tragic death, Deal was arrested on child abuse charges. Police spokesman Larry Hadfield said officers waited to break the window because Deal insisted on avoiding damage to his new vehicle and they claimed they could see the child breathing, according to Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“The dad said that the AC was on and the kid was playing, and when the officers arrived, they saw that she was breathing,” Hadfield said. “But when the officers got concerned for the child’s well-being, they broke the window.”
Shellie Ratliff, a neighbor who witnessed the ordeal tells the news outlet both Deal and police attempted to unlock the car for about two hours before the window was broken and claims they even asked her for a hanger. She said she was unaware a child was in the car until she saw them remove the body.
“I don’t understand why police didn’t bust that window open first,” Ratliff said to the Review-Journal. “You can always get another car, but you can’t get another life.”
Other neighbors tell the Review-Journal they believe the death was a tragic accident, and say they viewed deal as a caring father.
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“I can genuinely say that since that baby was small, he’s loved on her. I’ve never seen a bad time when he had that little girl in his possession,” Darius Jones said to the outlet. Deal is being held at the Clark County Detention Center on $20K bail. He is expected to appear in court Thursday.
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Nicholas Beauchene is accused of dumping 1,875 pieces of first class mail in two dumpsters.
A New Jersey postal carrier has been charged by the Department of Justice for discarding hundreds of pieces of first class mail in dumpsters, including ballots for the November 3rd election.
According to a DOJ statement, Nicholas Beauchene, 26, is accused of dumping 1,875 pieces of mail in two dumpsters on two different days, during two different mail routes in North Arlington and West Orange. The mail was recovered between Oct. 2 and Oct. 5, The Hill reports. A local resident had been tossing his own trash when he discovered dozens of ballots in the dumpster in North Arlington (98 ballots to be exact), and he immediately called police.
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“At first it looked like junk mail circulars and things like that, and then I flipped over a piece and I saw something that said address correction and all that kind of thing,” Howard Dinger said, adding that he flipped through “a few more pages I saw the ballots on it, and at that point I knew it was serious,” he told CBS New York.
“To have that all go in the trash like that was, in my mind, really ridiculous. The ballots are the ballots. The election is the election. It is what it is. But these people have legal notices and checks and God knows what they’re expecting,” Dinger said.
The dumpster in West Orange reportedly had hundreds of first class mail items and one general election ballot. All of the mail from both dumpsters was eventually delivered.
Beauchene, who has worked for the Postal Service since July, has been charged with one count of delay of mail and one of obstruction of mail. He faces up to five years and six months in prison if found guilty, and a $255,000 fine.
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Federal prosecutors have stated that his actions were politically motivated.
Beauchene’s arrest comes amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing allegations that mail-in voting will lead to widespread voter fraud, despite there being no evidence to support the claim, theGRIO previously reported,
Senior intelligence officials said in August that there is no evidence supporting Trump’s warnings that November’s election will be marred by foreign interference or massive fraud due to the likelihood of increased absentee voting.
“We have no information or intelligence that any nation or state actor is engaging in any kind of activity to undermine any part of the mail-in vote or ballots,” an unnamed senior official told assembled media.
The president has routinely said that mail-in voting will be subject to widespread fraud. However, top U.S. officials, state employees and other voting experts have continuously refuted the claim.
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Kamala Harris said last month that Tupac Shakur was her favorite ‘living’ rapper in a viral gaffe
The Trump campaign wants all eyes on Tupac Shakur during tonight’s vice-presidential debate as they’ve reserved a ticket for the late rapper in a taunt directed at Sen. Kamala Harris.
Harris and Vice President Mike Pence will be debating in their first and only exchange, but the barbs are already being thrown. Pence’s would-be replacement is being mocked for her assertion last month at NAACP’s virtual convention about her musical tastes.
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“Best rapper alive?” CNN commentator Angela Rye asked.
Harris named Tupac but Rye reminded the California senator that he died. Tupac was shot and killed at the age of 25 in 1996 in Las Vegas but conspiracy theorists have insisted the rap star is alive and in hiding.
“Not alive. I know, I keep doing that!” Harris laughed.
Harris attempted to recover from her gaffe but never got around to naming another rapper.
“There’s some I would not mention right now because they should stay in their lane,” she said.
Despite the slim chance of Tupac actually showing up to the debate being held in Salt Lake City, the Trump campaign has decided to have some fun at Harris’ expense.
“We have left a ticket for Tupac Shakur,” Trump’s senior campaign adviser Jason Miller reportedly told reporters.
Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign’s communications director, doubled down on the troll.
Though it’s widely believed that Harris says she smoked marijuana while listening to Tupac and Snoop, her quote was actually taken out of context in an interview with The Breakfast Club. While it was pointed out that Harris would have graduated before either of those rap stars became nationally known, in fact, she was talking separately about smoking and music when misquoted, according to Reuters.
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A rep for Harris stated at the time that there was simply a miscommunication.
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Dr. Rick Bright says if we don’t figure out the coronavirus now we could have a challenging winter.
Dr. Rick Bright has officially quit his position at the National Institutes of Health.
Not only has the immunologist quit, he says it’s because the Trump administration didn’t listen to the scientific evidence available to stop the spread of the coronavirus, per The Guardian. He also says his plan to develop a testing infrastructure for the country was ignored.
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The doctor used to lead a team at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a department of the U.S. Health and Human Services. The agency, responsible for helping fight public health conditions such as bioterrorism attacks and pandemics, is currently working on a coronavirus vaccine.
Bright was transferred this spring and believes it’s retaliation for refusing to sign on to the decision to give New Yorkers hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug Trump claimed as a COVID-19 remedy. He also claims senior NIH executives ignored his suggestion to provide healthcare workers with N95 respirator masks around the time the pandemic started.
He went public with the complaint he filed in May about his COVID-19 warnings being ignored.
“I was pressured to let politics and cronyism drive decisions over the opinions of the best scientists we have in government,” Bright said on a call per CNN, after filing the complaint.
When he testified before Congress in May, Bright said the US could undergo the darkest winter of modern history if it did not formulate a strategy to combat the virus.
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Dr. Bright’s attorneys Debra Katz and Lisa Banks said in a statement, “Dr. Bright was forced to leave his position at NIH because he can no longer sit idly by and work for an administration that ignores scientific expertise, overrules public health guidance, and disrespects career scientists, resulting in the sickness and death of hundreds of thousands of Americans.”
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News of the project follows the announcement that the publication has furloughed staff ‘due to revenue losses.’
The origin of Essence magazine is receiving the small screen treatment from HBO Max.
The network is developing a period drama series that will chronicle the launch of the American publication dedicated to Black women. Essence co-founder Edward Lewis will serve as executive producer alongside Korin Huggins and Monique Nash through their Kronicle Media banner, per Shadow and Act.
Here’s the description of the series:
Set amid the changing social and cultural landscape of post-civil rights era America, the series is inspired by the relationships between the men who founded the iconic women’s magazine, Essence, and the women who were the creative force behind it, as they create something mainstream America has never seen before. The show will tell the story of a Black startup before “startup” was a term and explores universal themes of love, loss and the pursuit of the American Dream.
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John Sacchi and Matt Groesch of 5 More Minutes Productions are also executive producing, according to the report.
News of the project follows the announcement that Essence Magazine has furloughed staff “due to revenue losses” amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, theGRIO previously reported.
In a press release, Essence noted that the negative impact of COVID-19 led to the cancellation of major events such as the popular Essence Music Festival.
“Six months into an unprecedented and continuing global pandemic, COVID-19 has had a broader and longer-lasting impact than anyone expected – and Essence Communications, Inc. (“ECI”) has not been immune to it,” the magazine said in an announcement.
“Nonetheless, our commitment to successfully guiding this iconic brand through these immediate challenges and forward is unwavering. Our team and the community we serve are too important. The culture we reflect and create is too important,” the publication continued. “The platforms we’ve built for the celebration, inspiration and empowerment of Black women and communities are too important. This is why we are making the business decisions we are making today.”
The publication intends to “pay everyone impacted throughout this week and will cover their medical benefits premiums throughout the furlough,” which is expected to last no longer than six months.
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The victim died in a hail of police bullets after riding his bike on the wrong side of the street.
The official autopsy of Dijon Kizzee confirms that the 29-year-old was shot 16 times by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies in August, with multiple bullets causing “rapidly life-threatening wounds.”
The family of Kizzee had previously commissioned an independent autopsy, which declared the victim may have not attempted to aim a gun at police as previously claimed, theGRIO reported.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the family’s autopsy report also revealed that police were still firing after Kizzee was on the ground and could have survived if given medical attention.
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“What this shows is he was alive and breathing and writhing in pain when the officers continued to stay away,” said family attorney, Carl Douglas. “When they got a shield first, and they had a shield walking up to the man while he was writhing in pain. All too often, law enforcement officers misinterpret writhing in pain as some sort of act of resistance.”
The official autopsy report released last week certified Kizzee’s death as a homicide (by law enforcement) and the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds. The “rapidly fatal injuries include trauma to the heart, lungs, liver and left kidney,” according to the report, per CNN.
An earlier article on theGrio noted that Kizzee was shot in South LA in Budlong Ave. and 110th in August. He was riding his bike on the wrong side of the street when two deputies from South L.A. stopped him. Kizzee dropped his bike to run and as one of the deputies caught up to him, there was allegedly a struggle and Kizzee dropped a weapon.
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Capt. Kent Wegener claimed Kizzee, “bends over, reaches, picks up the gun and is shot as he stands with the gun in hand.”
He added, “You will see that the deputy struggling with Kizzee does not arm himself until Kizzee bends down to pick up the gun he dropped.”
But the Captain’s story differed from witnesses who say deputies did not try to deescalate the situation and that Kizzee was shot with nothing in his hands. The sheriffs office also had conflicting stories. First they said the shooting happened when the gun hit the ground then later claimed they began shooting because Kizzee “made a motion” for the gun.
Kizzee’s death sparked protests in South Los Angeles amid civil unrest over the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
Famed civil rights attorney Ben Crump said video footage of the incident contradicts the sheriff’s department’s account of the incident.
The independent autopsy noted that Kizzee bled to death after blood filled his lungs.
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Cuomo says gatherings in houses of worship contributed to the spike in cases
Just ahead of the fall flu season, areas of New York City are going to return to lockdown. According to Bloomberg.com, “hotspots” or parts of the city that are seeing a rise in coronavirus cases must close by the end of the week.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday the “Cluster Action Initiative,” which will categorize the city by color zones instead of specifying neighborhoods that are seeing an abundance of Covid-19 cases.
“These are geographically circumscribed, relatively small, but that’s why they’re clusters,” said Cuomo. “The trick is to keep them small.” The color clusters will be approximately one mile in diameter in size.
Red will represent the “intense action” area. Local government officials will be provided with maps in order to see how their area is classified.
In red areas, all mass gatherings will be prohibited, churches are only allowed to open at 25% capacity, schools will only be remote and restaurants will be takeout only.
In orange areas, churches are allowed up to 25 people, dining will be limited to outdoors only, gatherings of any kind will be reduced to 10 people or less and high-risk businesses like gyms and hair salons are to close.
Yellow areas are the least restricted. In these districts, schools can stay open with mandatory weekly testing, businesses can stay open and there will be minor restaurant restrictions.
Cuomo says the new restrictions are partially due to large gatherings at houses of worship. He added there will be 450 New York City police officers on the ground to enforce the lockdown.
“In New York City, the first rules weren’t enforced,” Cuomo said. “Houses of worship weren’t supposed to have more than 50 people. They’ve had hundreds.”
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This decision comes after New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut started seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases. Bloomberg says out of 96,000 tests reported in New York on Monday, 1,393 were positive.
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‘I had my four babies and no one else in the house to help.’
Kim Kardashian previously called for compassion for husband Kanye West over his battle with bipolar disorder, now she’s opening up about his “scary” experience with COVID-19.
During an interview with GRAZIA the reality TV star revealed that West was diagnosed with the coronavirus mid-March and caring for him proved to be quite challenging.
“Kanye had it way at the beginning, when nobody really knew what was going on,” Kardashian told the publication. “It was so scary and unknown. I had my four babies and no one else in the house to help.”
The KKW Beauty founder added “changing his sheets with gloves and a face shield was really a scary time.”
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“I had to go and change his sheets and help him get out of bed when he wasn’t feeling good. It was a challenge because it was so unknown,” Kardashian explained.
Ye told Forbes in July that his symptoms included “chills” and “shaking in bed.”
He also watched videos “telling me what I’m supposed to do to get over it,” he said.
“I remember someone had told me Drake had the coronavirus and my response was Drake can’t be sicker than me,” West added.
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Meanwhile, Kardashian believes the pandemic may very well be just what Mother Earth needs right now.
“I’m the type of person that respects the process, that respects what’s going on in the world,” she said. “Maybe our planet needed a break.”
She also tells Grazia that fans will get to see how her family was impacted by the onset of the coronavirus crisis when the final season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians airs next year.
“If anything, it’ll be really interesting to see what all of us were doing during the pandemic. We were so scared and cautious and we shared every moment of that,” Kardashian said. “Having to be with four kids and not have their friends or their routines and no help. It was a very different side of us that I don’t think anyone’s really seen.”
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The sign, almost 10 feet tall, was seen along the 405 freeway
A large sign appeared along the 405 freeway in Sepulveda Pass in California on Tuesday. The sign said ‘Trump’ in bold white letters similar to the ones on the Hollywood sign and stood about 10 feet tall, according to Kron4 news.
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But it had to come down. Work crews demolished the sign which faced northbound lanes near Getty Center Drive. Police say it was becoming a traffic hazard as motorists began to slow down to take pictures of it. According to California Highway Patrol’s incident log, the sign, discovered at 6:41 a.m., was a “traffic hazard.”
It was also located in a dry area making it susceptible to forest fires that are currently plaguing parts of the state. That particular area is known for destructive bush fires like last year’s Getty fire or the 2017 Skirball Fire.
Earlier this year, a smaller fire disrupted the hillsides of Sepulveda Pass. Unfortunately, wildfires like the ones in the past are continuing to escalate and according to the Associated Press, one fire, August Complex, has now burned 1 million acres.
“If that’s not proof point, testament, to climate change, then I don’t know what is,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom, per the Associated Press. The fires, in total, have burned through 4 million acres, double in comparison to previous years. Many speculate they are happening due to man-made climate change, which is why the sign posed a risk of further accelerating any fires that might break out.
The letters were found on private property but it is unclear who owns the property or who put the sign up.
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It’s also currently unknown any point the sign was trying to make just four weeks away from the general election. News reporters say they were surprised by the sign’s placement on the California highway above Hollywood, considering it is typically a Democratic, liberal area.
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